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All Quotes Collection

"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight."
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
35

"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
25

"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."
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"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"
17

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
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"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."
57

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."
50

"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
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"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead."
60

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."
59

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
90

"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future."
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"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
62

"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
83

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
67

"Magic's just science that we don't understand yet."
35

"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world."
71

"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting."
37

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."
35

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
83

"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."
58

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
39

"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
13

"It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny."
66

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
62

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
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